On 05/07/07, Gary V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> MrC wrote:
>
> > vwf wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm a newby on amavis. I run amavis to block virus-email. It seems to
> >> work fine: no virusses came through so far, and no email got lost (I
> >> think).
> >>
> >> The problem is that my quarantine directory is filling up, and I don't
> >> know how to clean it. When I cleared /var/lib/amavis/tmp/, amavis
> >> stopped working.
> >>
> >> How do I safely remove old quarantine files (e.g. >30 days)?
> >>
> >> I run amavisd-new 2.4.2-6.1 on Debian Etch.
> >>
> >> Thanks
>
> > It is safe to remove the old temporary and quarantine files - amavis
> > will not be using them.
>
> > find /var/lib/amavis/tmp/ -type f -mtime +30 -print | xargs /bin/rm
> -f
>
> > MrC
>
> On Debian you can remove temporary amavis-* directories simply by
> restarting amavis with '/etc/init.d/amavis restart'. The init script
> has code to remove temp directories (this is performed after
> amavisd-new is stopped):
>
> cleanup() {
> [ -d /var/lib/amavis ] &&
> find /var/lib/amavis -maxdepth 1 -name 'amavis-*' -type d \
> -exec rm -rf "{}" \; >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
> [ -d /var/lib/amavis/tmp ] &&
> find /var/lib/amavis/tmp -maxdepth 1 -name 'amavis-*' -type d \
> -exec rm -rf "{}" \; >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
> :
> }
>
> You should only have one amavis-* temp directory for each running
> amavisd-new
> process. If there are many more than this, you likely have some sort of
> problem.
> See http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#faq-gen
>
> As MrC shows, you can use the find command to delete files older than
> a given number of days. The command I use is similar:
> find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails -name 'virus-*' -mtime +29 -type f -exec
> rm -f {} \;
>
> Gary V
>
tmpwatch is yet another alternative, and depending on your distro's package
install could be an easier way to automate-and-forget this maintenance.
Riaan
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